# boxer
## English
### Etymology

From box +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈbɒksə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: bäksʹər, IPA: /ˈbɑksɚ/
* Rhymes: -ɒksə(ɹ)

### Noun

boxer (plural boxers)
* A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
    You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.
* A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
* A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
* The person running a game of two-up.
* One who packs boxes.
** 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]
* A letterboxer.
* Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
** 1987, Health, volume 19:Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]
** 2011, Jennie Allen, “Mad”, in Stuck Study: The Places We Get Stuck & the God Who Sets Us Free, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 38:My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.
** 2012, “Dennis Miller”, in Ronald H. Dykes, “They Wouldn’t Let Us Win”: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.

#### Synonyms

* (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
* (type of engine): boxer engine

#### Derived terms

* Boxador
* boxer-briefs
* boxer briefs
* boxered
* boxerly
* boxer shorts, boxers
* chess boxer
* kick-boxer, kickboxer
* shadowboxer
* squeeze boxer
* squeeze-boxer
* Thai boxer

#### Related terms

* box
* boxing

#### Translations
### See also

* wrestler
* Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* rebox

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Named after its glove-like palps.

### Noun

boxer
* an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

## Czech
### Noun

boxer m anim
* boxer (participant in a boxing match)
* boxer (breed of dog)

#### Declension
### Noun

boxer m inan
* brass knuckles
* boxer engine

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English boxer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔk.sər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: boxer
* Homophone: bokser

### Noun

boxer m (plural boxers, diminutive boxertje n)
* boxer (dog)
* boxer (engine)
* Short for boxershort.
* Nonstandard form of bokser.

## French
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔk.sɛʁ/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)
* boxer (dog)
* boxer shorts, boxers
* boxer (engine)

### Etymology 2

From English box +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔk.se/

#### Verb

boxer
* to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)

##### Related terms

* boxe
* boxeur

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: boxar

### Further reading

* “boxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔkser/

#### Noun

boxer m (invariable)
* boxer shorts, boxers

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

#### Noun

boxer m (invariable)
* boxer (dog)

### Etymology 3

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer engine.

#### Noun

boxer m (invariable)
* boxer (engine)

## Norman
### Etymology

From English box +‎ -er.

### Verb

boxer
* (Jersey) to box

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔk.seʁ/ [ˈbɔk.seh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔk.seʁ/ [ˈbɔk.seh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈbɔk.seɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈbɔk.seʁ/ [ˈbɔk.seχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔk.seɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɔ.ksɛɾ/
* Hyphenation: bo‧xer

### Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)
* boxer (breed of dog)

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French boxeur.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbok.ser/

#### Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)
* boxer (participant in a boxing match)
    Synonym: pugilist

##### Related terms

* box
* boxa
* boxare

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

#### Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri)
* boxer (breed of dog)

##### Declension
### References

* boxer in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)
* (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer